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What are you listening to? (4 Viewers)
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Chippy McChiperson
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Doing his Far from Folsom gig here at Freo prison this saturday night
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Not sure how many Drive By Truckers fans are on here. I know @pltrgyst likes Jason Isbell, so maybe he stuck around to see what else the rest of the band has done after Jason left.
What they've done most recently is make one of their best albums ever, certainly their best since Brighter Than Creation's Dark. It's explicitly political on most tracks (good Rolling Stone Country piece on that aspect of the record here), but even if you're not interested in the message, the production and playing is amazing. Mike Cooley continues to be one of the best lyricists and riff-writers working and now he's hit a turning point in his vocals, which are remarkably good here.
The lead track is, as it always should be, a Cooley song (studio version below, but the live acoustic version here is also fantastic):
And Cooley also wrote the anti-War on Terror song that people have been trying to write for the last 15 years. Ridiculously good.
But my favorite on the record at the moment is a Patterson song, Ever South, about Irish immigrants and their eventual Southern home.
What they've done most recently is make one of their best albums ever, certainly their best since Brighter Than Creation's Dark. It's explicitly political on most tracks (good Rolling Stone Country piece on that aspect of the record here), but even if you're not interested in the message, the production and playing is amazing. Mike Cooley continues to be one of the best lyricists and riff-writers working and now he's hit a turning point in his vocals, which are remarkably good here.
The lead track is, as it always should be, a Cooley song (studio version below, but the live acoustic version here is also fantastic):
And Cooley also wrote the anti-War on Terror song that people have been trying to write for the last 15 years. Ridiculously good.
But my favorite on the record at the moment is a Patterson song, Ever South, about Irish immigrants and their eventual Southern home.
Sorry man. I was just trying to share the misery.
Some of the parody videos of PPAP are worthwhile, but I recommend muting the volume unless you want that shit stuck in your head for a few more days.
On a brighter note, "A Live One" may have featured some tracks from my first show (12/3/94). Dave Matthews Band was the opener that night, and it might be the only time I have seen the Giant Country Horns in person.
Some of the parody videos of PPAP are worthwhile, but I recommend muting the volume unless you want that shit stuck in your head for a few more days.
On a brighter note, "A Live One" may have featured some tracks from my first show (12/3/94). Dave Matthews Band was the opener that night, and it might be the only time I have seen the Giant Country Horns in person.
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Very lucky to get a full set of the Horns. I saw them do plenty of encores, but never a full set. I always seemed to be one or two shows behind them.
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Still can't stop listening to this record. Both my current favorites are Mike Cooley songs:
"Kinky Hypocrites" which, particularly given their Georgia residency, I think must have been inspired by Creflo Dollar's indecent escapades.
And "Surrender Under Protest" which I admit I didn't listen enough to understand until this past week. Its rejection of much of the South's revisionist history of the aims of the Confederacy fits perfectly in the evolution of the full band's view of race relations in the South. Listening to "The Southern Thing" and then "Surrender Under Protest," a lot of Southerners will be familiar with the progression of the narrators' perspectives and values.
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I never would have guessed that the DBTs would have gone on to have so much success while watching them at the Supper Club years ago. I enjoyed their music, but didn't think there would be much of a market for their kind of music. I guess I underestimated the jam band scene! Anyway, the next time I saw them live was at the huge Hangout Fest and it was a bit surreal.
Oh yeah, R.I.P Supper Club...
Same. I didn't really pay attention even when Southern Rock Opera came out, but after Jason joined and Decoration Day hit, I was hooked and saw them a ton, gradually moving to bigger and bigger venues. It was really great to see them outside the South for a while and get to still see them in tiny bars and dives. Fortunately for all of us, they still play the 40 Watt when they come home to Athens and occasionally a late night surprise show at the Caledonia.
I saw them most recently at the outdoor stage at the Stone Pony here in Jersey with the Hold Steady. One of the better sets I've seen of theirs despite the relatively large (2k?) crowd. And it might be the last tour the Hold Steady ever does, so it was pretty great.
Funny how all the hipsters and contrarians are coming out saying Dylan doesn't deserve the Nobel for literature that was just announced. So what if you don't like Love and Theft? He had a string of albums that utterly destroys every other pop, rock, and folk artists' best work.
Even Zappa said he felt like he should just quit music when he heard Like a Rolling Stone because it was the ultimate critique of culture that he would have been striving to write for years.
Dylan is by far the greatest non-jazz and non-classical musical artist of all time. It's not close. He is it. And yeah, Like a Rolling Stone has been played a billion times by a billion radio stations, but it's still insanely, insanely good. Lyrics like these are why he won the Nobel for literature:
Even Zappa said he felt like he should just quit music when he heard Like a Rolling Stone because it was the ultimate critique of culture that he would have been striving to write for years.
Dylan is by far the greatest non-jazz and non-classical musical artist of all time. It's not close. He is it. And yeah, Like a Rolling Stone has been played a billion times by a billion radio stations, but it's still insanely, insanely good. Lyrics like these are why he won the Nobel for literature:
Princess on a steeple and all the pretty people
They're all drinking, thinking that they've got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you better take your diamond ring, you better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him he calls you, you can't refuse
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you've got no secrets to conceal
They're all drinking, thinking that they've got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you better take your diamond ring, you better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him he calls you, you can't refuse
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you've got no secrets to conceal
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Unsurprisingly, Hendrix had amazing taste. He said at one point that his favorite guitarist was Billy Gibbons (of ZZ Top), another artist whose earlier amazing work is almost dismissed by high-minded listeners because of later (admittedly spotty, but still good) output.
Bob Weir covered When I Paint My Masterpiece last night in Philly... above average.
One of my favorite Dylan covers the Dead did. Their Dylan covers collection, Postcards From the Hanging, is superb as is Jerry's Garcia Plays Dylan.
Weir played it solo acoustic.. his vocals were pretty amazing. Great show.. great venue (Tower).
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